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Title: Violin : A Novel by Maria Tucci, Anne Rice ISBN: 0-679-46065-9 Publisher: Bantam Books-Audio Pub. Date: 11 October, 1997 Format: Audio CD Volumes: 3 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.39 (235 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Rice is playing to a different tune.
Comment: I'm not a big Anne Rice fan. I don't dislike her, but the mention of her name kinda invokes an indifference in me. I was however pretty impressed with this book. I wasn't blown away by my enthusiasm, but I felt this book was much better than the pulp I've read that she has produced in the past. I don't want to insult the readers of Rice's "regular" novels with the name pulp, but let's be honest that is what it is and believe me there is nothing wrong with it. Literary elitist tend to pick on writers with mainstream appeal and the writers in response spend alot of time finding respect that most of them deserve. I think this was Rice's attempt at doing so. The work reads almost dreamlike, but than quickly fades into a story and neither of which is bad and actually pretty good at times. The beginning of the novel isn't as surreal as it is portrayed by many other reviewers and central part is entertaining. It ends nicely and actually as quickly as it should. This is a nice piece I recommend it, but not to readers wanting the same ole' Anne Rice.
Rating: 3
Summary: It took me a year to read this one...
Comment: when I usually stay up all night just to get through one of Anne Rice's books.
I must say I was very dissappointed with this one. I picked it up and put it down at least seven or eight times just trying to get "into" it. It took some doing but I finally managed to get through it.
I must say it was a forced read. One I would take to the doctors or dentists office, because I wouldnt mind the hours of interruption.
As one of her most faithful fans I usually buy or even pre-order her books...
My advice for the reader is to buy only if you are curious and then with caution.
Rating: 5
Summary: Read it for yourself to decide...
Comment: Let me first say, the overwhelming amounts of reviews that complain that its not in line with her other styles of writting is atrocious. Mrs. Rice has, in a sense, strayed from her more Gothic/Horror novels into a world painfully real and yet surreal at the same time, but this does not mean that the book is bad.
In Violin, your taken into the haunted and slightly maddening world of Triana, a woman in her 50's whose AID's infected husband has just died, one in a string of deaths through out Trianas life, and each adding to her burden of guilt that she couldnt save them somehow. Its in this slightly deranged state that Stephen appears, a ghost that has nothing to do with her past yet can call it up with one touch of the bow to the violin. His goal is to drive her mad, as so many others he has driven mad, but she proves to be beyond the point of breaking, or ideed, she is already too broken, and in her defiance of the visions he invokes, she takes from him the one thing that he treasures, and falls into the ghostly world of Stephens life and death.
It is, beyond all criticims of 'straying from style' and 'too close to home', a deliciously good book. While Triana certainly doesnt envoke a character that one would like (indeed, her wallow in self pity and remorse for a life out of control made me hate her), Stephen proves a very dynamic and intriguing character and alone makes this book worth reading; and the places and description so comman to Anne Rice only add to its appeal. It prevokes a thoughtful response of human passions and relations, and is an attempt at looking at death that Rice avoids in her famous Vampire Chronicles. Where Lestat sees death as something horrible to avoid at all costs and purely mortal in its happenings, Triana and Stephen show that it is not the utter end to everything, and that death can be far worse for those left behind than those who die.
This is not to say that there is nothing wrong with it, but as with all Rice's books, its the same genral annoyance. That is, she delves into cvontemplating the existnce of God and poking at Christianity as she always does, but it is far less pronounce then as in, say, Memnoch the Devil or The Vampire Lestat, and can be ignored with more ease if that is your wish. Over all, I reccomend VIOLIN with full confidence and go as far as to say it is definatly my favorite out of all her books(that is, until I get my copy of Cry to Heaven. We'll see^_^)
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Title: Cry to Heaven by Anne Rice ISBN: 0345396936 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Servant of the Bones by Anne Rice ISBN: 0345389417 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 28 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Pandora by Anne Rice ISBN: 0345422384 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 26 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Feast of All Saints by Anne Rice ISBN: 0345334531 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 12 September, 1986 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Vittorio, the Vampire by Anne Rice ISBN: 0345422392 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 27 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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